Oneida : from free love Utopia to the well-set table /

Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wayland-Smith, Ellen, 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Picador, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Noyes, John Humphrey, > 1811-1886. Oneida, ltd. > History. Oneida Community > History. Social reformers > United States > Biography. Collective settlements > New York (State) > History. Free love > New York (State) > History > 19th century. Silver flatware > United States > History > 19th century. Tableware > United States > History > 20th century. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Table of Contents:

A minister is born
Noyes in the underworld
New Jerusalem (in Vermont)
Electric sex, or, How to live forever
Marriage grows complex
The machine in the garden
Sticky love
Brave new world
Twilight of the gods
Things fall apart
Selling silver
Survival of the fittest
"The strike of a sex"
"Back home for keeps"
The burning.